Claude Remy #1 with 15 000 FAs

Claude Remy has put up some 15 000 routes/pitches during the last 40 years. Recently he has has been focused on Leonidio and before that - Kalymnos. The Swiss says that he has more or less always been working half-time for 30 years and the other half he has spent putting up routes, mainly with his older brother. The picture from Leonidio shows Claude helping out when local children try to climb for the first time. - Please do not ask me why I have this obsession. My wife has asked me that so many times and I just do not have any answer. I like in an area in Switzerland where I practically can go out every day and just open new routes. I love to be part of opening up new destinations like Kalymnos and Leonidio. During the last years, he has not so often paid for the bolts but other than that he covers all expenses himself and does not get paid for his work. - It is strange that I often meet so many climbers who think that this is my job and that I make good money out of it. It is noteworthy that he recently did get the Albert Mountain Award and that his father Marcel (94) did an eight pitches long 5a this summer.